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Constructing You Elinor Moshe
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hat is the greatest project you will ever get to work on? You, of course.
Yet complacency about taking agency of one’s own career is rampant today. People place extreme expectations on their organisations to develop their own career. The only person who is in charge of the results, outcomes and trajectory of your career, is you. Organisations only facilitate opportunity, it is always up to the individual to understand whether that is alignment with where they want to go. This is the ethos I have always maintained, and am always in the drivers’ seat of my career.
In today’s social age, it takes extreme and massive action in terms of self-development and actualisation outside of the workplace to truly achieve career success. A one or two day professional development course on a generic skill has negligible impact on accelerating and building a career. What matters most today, is who you are. Your personality, your values, your attributes. Yet most people don’t actually know what that is because they don’t spend the time doing the work – which it actually is – figuring this all out. So they free-fall into careers that take decades to start-up and evolve. And this was the problem which forced my response. This was the fuel and impetus to founding my business, The Construction Coach. It’s the vehicle via which I guide, inspire and direct industry professionals and future leaders to propel their career in construction, so they can achieve more recognition, higher compensation and faster career
progression. Construction industry professionals are working with outdated practices that are preventing them from achieving their potential and seeing what’s possible. Expanding the world view of my community is one of the most powerful, and weighted responsibilities I have. It’s my duty as an industry leader to show you what is possible. When I was going through university and expanding my networks in the formative days of my career, only a very narrow bandwidth of career options were presented; Project Manager, possibly a Construction Manager. The upper echelon positions, albeit a founder of a business or executive management were seemingly reserved for “someone else” but not me. To realise that this is all possible for me, took years of mindset conditioning and development. It took time to develop vision and lift the ceiling on what can actually be achieved. Yet it still wasn’t clear how to actually get ‘there’. I asked the question, ‘what does it really take to have an exemplary career in property and construction today?” which lead to the conception of my new podcast, Constructing You. I’m going to accelerate the process for you, so you’re not spending years in freefall, in stagnation, and in doubt. Constructing You shares the stories of the people behind the projects. The construction and property industries are people industries, after all. It still amazes me how some companies don’t even profile the people within the organisation, just the projects! Which adds to the fact that typically when we look at our built environment, and ask, ‘who built this?’, the answer is a name of a company. But who are the people behind the projects? Who are the ones who have vision, and have brought them to life? That’s why I am starting at the top and sharing interviews with exemplary leaders and industry titans with you. It leans into the old adage, you can’t be what you can’t see, and how right that is. I’m not only going to find out what they do, but also who they are, and who they’ve had to become to achieve what they have. This is to show you who you can be, need to be, and can grow into, to achieve massive career success, regardless of your job title. You are not your job title. Wouldn’t you like to realise your full potential? Wouldn’t you like to see how far you can go when you lift limitations imposed by others, and yourself? This podcast is here to take you much further than developing your technical skills – frankly, none of that is up for discussion. Because I want to inspire and ignite
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